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Scrum Q&A: Questions from a ScrumMaster & Answers from an Expert
Frequently, students leave our classrooms excited to implement what they’ve learned, only to discover that once they’re back at work they’ve got more questions. Never fear. We’re only a phone call or...
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Getting More Out Of Your Daily Scrum: The 5 Discussions Your Team Should Be...
The Daily Scrum is an absolutely necessary part of Scrum, but it’s not really about those 3 questions we all know and love: What have you done since the last Daily Scrum? What are you going to do until...
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Don’t Go Through It. Grow Through It.
We’ve all encountered it. We’re present at some Team activity, and we’re there, but we’re not there. We’ve shown up, but that’s about it. Chances are, our mindset this minute has nothing to do with...
View ArticleAgile Project Management – Balancing the two triangles
Every PMP knows about the triple constraints of project management. Those being Cost, Scope and Schedule. Yet, in agile environments where does a PM really “fit”? It’s not a role defined or specified...
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From LeSS to SSwS
We all know what a Scrum Team looks like, right? There’s a Product Owner, a ScrumMaster and a Development Team. In this simple picture, the ScrumMaster is connected to the Development Team. When a...
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Ready, Done and UnDone Work
We sure use a lot of English words in funny ways in Scrum, don’t we? Three of them that tend to confuse people are Ready, Done, and UnDone. I’d like to explain them here. To do so, I’ll describe these...
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Throwback Thursday: The Top 5 Ways ScrumMasters Can Kick Impediments To The Curb
THROWBACK THURSDAY: The Top 5 Ways ScrumMasters Can Kick Impediments To The Curb Impediments always seem to always get in the way, don’t they? Well, we thought for this Throwback, we’d remind you a few...
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A Day in the Life of a Scrum Master
The daily life of a ScrumMaster is anything but mundane. Play along with one ScrumMaster as she facilitates, plans and runs interference all in the name of becoming a Well-Formed Team. As always, stay...
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The Startup Sprint: How To Get Started By Doing Real Work
Agile development is all about delivering valuable Results early and often, in order to receive and incorporate feedback as soon as possible. Many of the organizations we coach are convinced that it...
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Throwback Thursday: Work Smarter. Not Harder.
THROWBACK THURSDAY: Work Smarter. Not Harder. The Labor Day weekend is almost upon us, and what better opportunity for our Throwback Thursday Post to remind everyone of the mantra “work smarter, not...
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The Release Sprint: How To Get The Product Out The Door
Imagine you are the Team’s Product Owner at the Product Review and the Sales Manager says, ‘That looks good! I can sell the heck out of that. Give it to me NOW! Ship that puppy!’ Now what? Are you...
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A Day in the Life of a Product Owner
The daily life of a Product Owner is a busy balancing act. Play along with one PO as he culls, clarifies and conveys the needs of the Stakeholders to ensure the Scrum Team gets the right feedback to...
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Sprint Length: What Length is the Right Length?
I am often asked, ‘How long should my Team’s Sprint be?’ and ‘Does the Sprint have to be a fixed-length?’ I find that it’s not enough to just say: ‘Don’t think too hard about it. If you’re using a...
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Calling it Quits: Abnormally Terminating a Sprint
It’s Not a Bad Thing The Product Owner may cancel a Sprint at any time. In Scrum-speak, this is called an Abnormal Termination because terminating a Sprint at all should be an abnormal or rare...
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Throwback Thursday: Product Ownership is Hard
THROWBACK THURSDAY: Product Ownership is Hard We recently published an infographic called “A Day in the Life of a PO“, and you got a feel of what it might be like to wear the PO shoes for a day....
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SHHHHH!!! 5 Ways to Quiet Organizational Noise
Throughout our day, we experience an inordinate amount of noise. Whether it’s the garbage truck barreling down our road at 5 am, the dog that excitedly greets every passerby or the co-worker’s emphatic...
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The First Step to a Well-Formed Team™
If you’ve ever been a part of an agile Team that is high-performing, effective and empowered, you know what we mean. It’s an experience unlike anything else. In fact, you’re probably smiling (or...
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Signs That Your Team Needs The Well-Formed Team™
Our Scrum experts have been busy putting the finishing touches on our latest white paper, The Well-Formed Team. While they dot their I’s and cross their T’s, here’s a short quiz to determine if your...
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Something Wicked This Way Scrums
In the spine-chilling spirit of this Halloween season, we offer you our spookiest of Scrum Infographics. Grab your goblet of witches brew from the nearest cauldron and enjoy our bone tingling...
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R-E-S-P-E-C-T and The Well-Formed Team™
There are two things we know for sure: It’s impossible to read this blog’s title without harnessing your inner-Aretha. It’s impossible to create a Well-Formed Team without everyone giving, as Aretha...
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